William Dean Howells Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

6 Famous Quotes by William Dean Howells
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“Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself”
Inequality Quotes
“The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook Blew the gold hair about her eyes,-- A mystery of mysteries. So he must often pause, and stoop, An all the wanton ringlets loop Behind her dainty ear--emprise Of slow event and many sighs.”
Hair Quotes
Source: Through the Meadow
“Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?"”
Bobolinks Quotes
Source: The Bobolinks are Singing
“Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes? Does it blow so strong that she must fetch Her breath in sudden sighs?”
October Quotes
Source: Gone
“Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed fields of heaven where once my Faith possessed itself serenely safe from death; If I deny things past finding out; Or if I orphan my own soul from One That seemed a Father, and make void the place Within me where He dwelt in Power and Grace, What do I gain by what I have undone?”
Christianity Quotes
“Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.”
Men and women Quotes