The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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