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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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