The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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