Quotes of William Dean Howells - somelinesforyou

“ You’ll find as you grow older that you weren’t born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook Blew the gold hair about her eyes, — A mystery of mysteries. So he must often pause, and stoop, An all the wanton ringlets loop Behind her dainty ear — emprise Of slow event and many sighs. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle, satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook Blew the gold hair about her eyes, — A mystery of mysteries. So he must often pause, and stoop, An all the wanton ringlets loop Behind her dainty ear — emprise Of slow event and many sighs. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ It was this willingness to find poetry in things around them that kept his life and Isabel's fresh, and they taught their children the secret of their elixir. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ In a moment it had come, the first serious dispute of their wedded life. It had come as all such calamities come, from nothing, and it was on them in full disaster ere they knew. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ It was this willingness to find poetry in things around them that kept his life and Isabel's fresh, and they taught their children the secret of their elixir. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. It may happen that it will yield you an unexpected delight, but this will be in its own uninterrupted way in spite of your good intentions. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook Blew the gold hair about her eyes, — A mystery of mysteries. So he must often pause, and stoop, An all the wanton ringlets loop Behind her dainty ear — emprise Of slow event and many sighs. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ It was this willingness to find poetry in things around them that kept his life and Isabel's fresh, and they taught their children the secret of their elixir. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally... the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. ”

- William Dean Howells

“ It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. ”

- William Dean Howells
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