We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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