Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithout death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEELike the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENo man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHeaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExample has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDifficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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