Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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