Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIf it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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