Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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