The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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