Maxioms by Christian Nestell Bovee
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it read more
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.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
