A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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