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 BOVEENothing 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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