Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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