Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGive me the character and I will forecast the event.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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