Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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.
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Nothing 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.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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