The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHe must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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