We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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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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