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!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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 nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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