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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
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New York City
New York
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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
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Example has far more followers than reason.
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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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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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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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