No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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