Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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