A book should be luminous not voluminous.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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