William Dean Howells - A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890)

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

William Dean Howells

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

William Dean Howells

The life of Christ, it wasn't only in healing the sick and going about to do good; it was suffering for the sins of others. That's as great a mystery as the mystery of death. Why should there be such a principle in the world? But it's been felt, and more or less dumbly, blindly recognized ever since Calvary. If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them. That's what has created the religious orders in all times—the brotherhoods and sisterhoods that belong to our day as much as to the mediaeval past. That's what is driving a girl like Margaret Vance, who has everything that the world can offer her young beauty, on to the work of a Sister of Charity among the poor and the dying.

William Dean Howells

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

William Dean Howells