The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to 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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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