There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDignity 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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