Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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