The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGreat warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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