There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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