Lew Wallace quotes
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“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.111, Bible Study Steps
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“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.23, XinXii
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“A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 5, ch. 7 (1880)
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“While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.107, Bible Study Steps
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“The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.454, e-artnow
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“Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.483, e-artnow
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“As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.225, e-artnow
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“The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poetry & Plays (Illustrated): Ben-Hur, The Fair God, The Prince of India, The Wooing of Malkatoon & Commodus”, p.239, e-artnow
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“This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.”
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“All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (1969). “Lew Wallace; an Autobiography”
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“Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 6, ch. 2 (1880)
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“There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or in the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ".
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“To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2010). “Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.
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“The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.”
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“Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.405, e-artnow
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“Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.477, Bible Study Steps
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“What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)”, p.398, Diversion Books
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“It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.”
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“When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.”
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“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.264, XinXii
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“It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.256, e-artnow
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“I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.”
-- Lew WallaceSource : LEW WALLACE (1906). “AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”
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