The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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!
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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