The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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