We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECommon sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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