Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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