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Christian Nestell Bovee

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
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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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success

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