"Is it worth while to observe that there……" — William Dean Howells
"Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?"
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32 Quotes by William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells has 32 quotes on this site.
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know…
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It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and…
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Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
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Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no…
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I wonder why we hate the past so.
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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly…
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really…
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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is…
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How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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More Blinds Quotes
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one of 131 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
— John Perry Barlow
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on…
— Roseanne Barr
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.
— Janet Morris
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with…
— Richard Dawkins
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
— H. Rider Haggard
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less…
— William Hazlitt
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see…
— William Faulkner
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It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody…
— Robert E. Lee
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