The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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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.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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