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Lew Wallace

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


— Lew Wallace


#insperational-thoughts #love #love

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


— Lew Wallace


#happiness #happy #love #others #sacrifice

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


— Lew Wallace


#inspirational

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.


— Lew Wallace


#humor #roman #secrets #death

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.


— Lew Wallace


#companionship #lonely #people #stoop

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


— Lew Wallace


#against #death #history #inscriptions #monuments

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


— Lew Wallace


#behave #behaved #dislike #men #rule

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.


— Lew Wallace


#beauty #beholder #eye #eye of the beholder

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.


— Lew Wallace


#fortune #good #good fortune #moment #more






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Lew Wallace rejoined his father in Indianapolis. His father was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point New York and served as lieutenant governor and governor of Indiana.  .

Wallace served as governor of the New Mexico Territory at the time of the Lincoln County War and worked to bring an end to the fighting. Of his novels and biographies he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) a bestselling book since its publication and called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century. Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10 1827 – February 15 1905) was an American lawyer Union general in the American Civil War territorial governor and statesman politician and author.

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