He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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To 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.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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