Willa Cather Quote

He acted too often without counting the cost, from some dazzling conception, — one could not say from impulse, for impulses are from the heart. He liked to reorganize and change things for the sake of change, to make a fine gesture, He destroyed the old before he had clearly thought out the new.

Shadows on the Rock (1931)

He acted too often without counting the cost, from some dazzling conception, — one could not say from impulse, for impulses are from the heart. He...

He acted too often without counting the cost, from some dazzling conception, — one could not say from impulse, for impulses are from the heart. He...

He acted too often without counting the cost, from some dazzling conception, — one could not say from impulse, for impulses are from the heart. He...

He acted too often without counting the cost, from some dazzling conception, — one could not say from impulse, for impulses are from the heart. He...