A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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