A book should be luminous not voluminous.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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