There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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