A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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To 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.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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