It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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