Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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