There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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