If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEconomy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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