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Lew Wallace Quotes

Lew Wallace quotes

American Soldier April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905

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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 Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is..."
The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. Lew Wallace
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 Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but..."
Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder."
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of..."
Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone. Lew Wallace
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. Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the..."
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart. Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps..."
I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman. Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive..."
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. Lew Wallace
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship. Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to..."
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly. Lew Wallace
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 Wallace
Lew Wallace quote: "Latin is an abomination!"
Latin is an abomination! Lew Wallace

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