There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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