He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.William Dean Howells
It was this willingness to find poetry in things around them that kept his life and Isabel's fresh, and they taught their children the secret of their elixir.
William Dean Howells
I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all and the toiler's truest and best reward.
William Dean Howells
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells
The knowledge of your helplessness in any circumstances is so perfect that it begets a sense of irresponsibility, almost of security and as you drowse upon the pallet of the sleeping car, and feel yourself hurled forward through the obscurity, you are almost thankful that you can do nothing, for it is upon this condition only that you can endure it and some such condition as this, I suppose, accounts for many heroic facts in the world.
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
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