It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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