Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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 passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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