Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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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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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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