He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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 nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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