He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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