Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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