| 25 Famous Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
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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.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Summaries of Thought--Authors
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“A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.”
Discretion Quotes |
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“Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.”
Enthusiasm Quotes |
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“Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.”
Fame Quotes |
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“Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.”
Simplicity Quotes |
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“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
Unconscious Quotes |
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“Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.”
Unemployment Quotes |
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“The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.”
Cheerfulness Quotes |
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“One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.”
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“The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.”
Courtesy Quotes |
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“The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.”
Credulity Quotes |
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“There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.”
Custom Quotes |
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“The worst deluded are the self-deluded.”
Delusion Quotes |
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“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
Delusion Quotes |
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“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”
Desire Quotes |
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“Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.”
Economy Quotes |
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“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”
Future Quotes |
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“Few minds wear out; more rust out.”
Mind Quotes |
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“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
Passion Quotes |
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“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
Perseverance Quotes |
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“In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.”
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“Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.”
Taste Quotes |
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“Bad taste is a species of bad morals.”
Taste Quotes |
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“The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.”
Thought Quotes |
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“The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.”
Wit Quotes |
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Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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