There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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