The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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