The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great artist is a slave to his ideals.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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