It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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.
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