We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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