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“The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.”

Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee was an American writer, philosopher, and theologian known for his works in moral philosophy, religion, and literary criticism. more

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“Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.”

Play Feelings Language Effort Speech Wit Fancy Holiday License Constraints Thoughts And Feelings Trifling Carnivals Duress

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.”

World Eye Poor Concern Casts Productions Miserable Over It

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Virtue is health, vice is sickness.”

Virtue Vices Sickness

Author:Petrarch

“It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.”

Past Enjoy Former Recollection Former Life

Author:Martial

“You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.”

Ifs Thinking Pay Poet Praise Admire Pardon Pardon Me

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]”

Giving Wealth Fate Possession Extras

Author:Martial

“If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.”

Ifs Given Poor Poverty Rich Riches

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]”

Author:Martial

“Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.”

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“You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.”

Want Book Sells

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial