The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETearless grief bleeds inwardly.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating 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 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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