Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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