Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENothing 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past 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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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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