Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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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.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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