Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHeaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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