Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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