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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGive me the character and I will forecast the event.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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