A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAn eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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