The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEToo much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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