Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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