Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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