Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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