Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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 sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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