Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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