It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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