A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHe must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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 cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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