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!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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