Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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