A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGive me the character and I will forecast the event.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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