There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere 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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAn eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExample has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECourage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMen, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIf it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEELife is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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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