Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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