The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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