When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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 cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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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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