The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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