The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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