Top 30 Lew Wallace Quotes (2024 Update)

Lew Wallace Quote: “All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.”

1. “All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.”

2. “Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.”

3. “While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.”

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

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Lew Wallace Quote: “The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.”

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

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Lew Wallace Quote: “Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.”

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

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Lew Wallace Quote: “The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”

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

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Lew Wallace Quote: “It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.”

8. “It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.”

9. “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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Lew Wallace Quote: “When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.”

10. “When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.”

11. “This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.”

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

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Lew Wallace Quote: “Pride is never so loud as when in chains.”

13. “Pride is never so loud as when in chains.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.”

15. “Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.”

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

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Lew Wallace Quote: “Knowledge leaves no room for chances.”

17. “Knowledge leaves no room for chances.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature – art can go no further.”

18. “The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature – art can go no further.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “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.”

20. “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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Lew Wallace Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Lew Wallace Quote: “Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.”

22. “Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “A man can carry his mind with him as he carries his watch; but like the watch, to keep it going he must keep it wound up. Of.”

24. “A man can carry his mind with him as he carries his watch; but like the watch, to keep it going he must keep it wound up. Of.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “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 grave are there no dreams.”

25. “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 grave are there no dreams.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.”

27. “Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “A man drowning may be saved; not so a man in love.”

28. “A man drowning may be saved; not so a man in love.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “The fiend whose task it is to torture us with fears and bitter thoughts seldom does his work by halves.”

29. “The fiend whose task it is to torture us with fears and bitter thoughts seldom does his work by halves.”

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Lew Wallace Quote: “Religion is merely the law which binds man to his Creator: in purity it has but these elements – God, the Soul, and their Mutual Recognition; out of which, when put in practise, spring Worship, Love, and Reward.”

30. “Religion is merely the law which binds man to his Creator: in purity it has but these elements – God, the Soul, and their Mutual Recognition; out of which, when put in practise, spring Worship, Love, and Reward.”

— Lew Wallace

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