Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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