The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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