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In art there are two principal...

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Our courage is greater to dare...

Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The very cunning conceal their...

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The method of the critic is to...

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

No work deserves to be critici...

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The legitimate aim of criticis...

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

What a position of transcenden...

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

It is easier to die bravely th...

It is easier to die bravely than to live so.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Give me the character and I wi...

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

There is something in the char...

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

To vindicate the sanctity of h...

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

It is one of the arts of a gre...

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Beauty can afford to laugh at ...

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Age, that acquaints us with in...

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

There is probably no hell for ...

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Good men have the fewest fears...

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.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Youth is too tumultuous for fe...

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Dreamers are half-way men of t...

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

It is invidious to distinguish...

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

An ambition to excel in petty ...

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

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