He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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