The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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