Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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