Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Literature
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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