He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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