He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMen, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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