Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Dignity 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.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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 mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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