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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGive me the character and I will forecast the event.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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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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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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