There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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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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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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