Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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