Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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