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The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn'twork out the first time. — Amanda Howells
People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would think they would go mad of it.
— William Dean Howells
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
— William Dean Howells
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
— William Dean Howells
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
— William Dean Howells
It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
— William Dean Howells
She was so thin I could probably deck her on the side of the head with a pack of Marlboro Lights and she'd hemmorrhage internally.
— Amanda Howells
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
— William Dean Howells
It was one of many times I tried to save her. But by the time I did, it was too late.
— Debbie Howells
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
— William Dean Howells
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
— William Dean Howells
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
— William Dean Howells
I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.
— William Dean Howells
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
— William Dean Howells
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
— William Dean Howells
If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.
— William Dean Howells
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
— William Dean Howells
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
— William Dean Howells
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
— William Dean Howells
I haven't done anything--yet.
— William Dean Howells
Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them are ruinous! — William Dean Howells
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
— William Dean Howells
The Lord always shows you all the difficulties when He is going to do anything through you.
— Rees Howells
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
— William Dean Howells
It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.
— William Dean Howells
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
— William Dean Howells
I was being strong. Even though I felt weak.
— Amanda Howells
She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
— William Dean Howells
An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise
— James Howell
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
— William Dean Howells
That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .
— Debbie Howells
Forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes and rich bottom-lands. The
— William Dean Howells
The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
— William Dean Howells
A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.
— William Dean Howells
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
— William Dean Howells
They're on a crash course to nowhere. But you, my lady friend, you're a black hole. You've sucked me in, and now there's no escape ...
— Amanda Howells
Putting yourself at risk ... that was the only path to anything meaningful. The biggest risk was in not taking a risk.
— Amanda Howells
Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.
— Rees Howells
After dreaming about being in love for so long I finally got what it meant to actually be in it.
— Amanda Howells
I've wondered since if you can ever truly read a face. It's too easy to see what you so desperately want to see, even if it isn't there. I knew that.
— Debbie Howells
I am yours, for time and eternitytime and eternity. — William Dean Howells
The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash.
— Rees Howells
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
— William Dean Howells
You have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you, because the present may be all you've got.
— Amanda Howells
If you don't have any dreams then they won't come true.
— Amanda Howells
I was fourteen when I fell in love with a goddess. Goddesses have that effect, even on teenagers.
— Debbie Howells
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
— William Dean Howells
Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.
— Rees Howells
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
— William Dean Howells
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
— William Dean Howells
She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.
— William Dean Howells
Even if there was something noble about having faith, it still hurt when you lost it.
— Amanda Howells
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
— William Dean Howells
In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.
— Amanda Howells
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
— William Dean Howells
You think you know everything that's happening around you. But you can't always see clearly when your standing right there in the picture.
— Amanda Howells
If you stay on the sidelines of the here and now then your future will only ever be a pale version of a dream you never had the courage to experience.
— Amanda Howells
The Bible is common-sense inspired.
— Rees Howells
People naturally despise a dependant.
— William Dean Howells
I wonder why we hate the past so.
— William Dean Howells
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
— William Dean Howells
Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.
— William Dean Howells
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
— William Dean Howells
