There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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