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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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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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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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