An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithin the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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 cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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