Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIf it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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