The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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