Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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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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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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