It is the nature of thought to find its way into 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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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