Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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