Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDignity 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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