There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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