Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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 great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in 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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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