Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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