Lew Wallace Quotes

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Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

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
As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

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Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

Lew Wallace
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

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Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

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The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

Lew Wallace
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

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Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

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What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

Lew Wallace
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.

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A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

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The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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For power, you know, is a fickle thing and always has its wings spread for flight.

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Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God.

Lew Wallace
Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love.

Lew Wallace