There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Wit, 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.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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