Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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