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Lewis Wallace (1827 – 1905) was an American lawyer, Union General in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called “the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.”
"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."
"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."
"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
“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.”
“Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.”
"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. "
“A word as to the pleasure there is in the thought of a Soul in each of us. In the first place, it robs death of its terrors by making dying a change for the better, and burial but the planting of a seed from which there will spring a new life.”
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- - - - - - -"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."
"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
“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.”
“Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.”
"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. "
“A word as to the pleasure there is in the thought of a Soul in each of us. In the first place, it robs death of its terrors by making dying a change for the better, and burial but the planting of a seed from which there will spring a new life.”