It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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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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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 greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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