Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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