Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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