The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome 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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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