The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithin the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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