The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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