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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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 fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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