When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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 some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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