Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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