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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Economy Poor Rich
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Depend Fame Truth Word
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Doubt Willing Yourself
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Activity One Liner Sadness
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Childhood Future Life Man Poor
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect