The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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