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The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn't
work 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

Death casts its shadow, leaving our hearts sad and tainting our world with fear. — 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

If you kept your light inside of yourself too long, it might burn out altogether. — Amanda 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

No work of God can become established unless it goes through the fire. — Rees 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 eternity
time 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

See what fun it is to do what Simon Says? Simon teased,
drawing closer toward me. — Amanda 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

You may live in a crowd but you meet God and face eternity alone — Rees 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

That's when I know they've never lost someone. If they had, they'd understand. That you always miss them. That the pain doesn't go. That life stops. — Debbie 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