The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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