Lew Wallace Quotes

• Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

  Lew Wallace

  Men, Shells, Growing

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.111, Bible Study Steps

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• All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

  Lew Wallace

  Mexico, Failing, Elsewhere

  Lew Wallace (1969). “Lew Wallace; an Autobiography”

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• The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

  Lew Wallace

  Love Is, Tests, Action

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.23, XinXii

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• While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

  Lew Wallace

  Wise, Justice, Unjust

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.107, Bible Study Steps

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• A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

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  Funny, Men, Trials

  Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 5, ch. 7 (1880)

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• It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.

  Lew Wallace

  Beautiful, Children, Hands

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• Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

  Lew Wallace

  Heaven, Sin, Repentance

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)”, p.482, Diversion Books

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• Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

  Lew Wallace

  Wisdom, Knowledge Of God, Pure

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.483, e-artnow

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• The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

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  Inscriptions, Protest, After Death

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.454, e-artnow

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• As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

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  Men, Behaviour, Way

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.225, e-artnow

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• When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, People

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• It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

  Lew Wallace

  Wise, Discipline, Band

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.256, e-artnow

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• Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

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  Dream, Real, Wine

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.477, Bible Study Steps

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• I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

  Lew Wallace

  Book, Writing, Men

  LEW WALLACE (1906). “AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”

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• To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

  Lew Wallace

  Humble, Reform, Cups

  Lew Wallace (2010). “Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

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  Light, Bird, Tree

  Lew Wallace (2016). “LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poetry & Plays (Illustrated): Ben-Hur, The Fair God, The Prince of India, The Wooing of Malkatoon & Commodus”, p.239, e-artnow

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• A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

  Lew Wallace

  Birthday, Summer, Men

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.264, XinXii

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• This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

  Lew Wallace

  Military, War, Humanity

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• Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

  Lew Wallace

  Love, Hope, Wings

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.405, e-artnow

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• There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or at the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history.

  Lew Wallace

  Running, Writing, Vanity

  "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ".

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• What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

  Lew Wallace

  Children, Earth, Steps

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)”, p.398, Diversion Books

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• Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

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  Sympathy, Taken, Self

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.230, Bible Study Steps

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• Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

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  Best Friend, Hurt, Men

  Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 6, ch. 2 (1880)

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• Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

  Lew Wallace

  Hurt, Women, Affection

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (A Tale of the Christ): Historical Novel”, p.358, e-artnow

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• As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

  Lew Wallace

  Gratitude, Fighting, Remembrance

  Lew Wallace (2010). “Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ”, p.274, Cosimo, Inc.

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