Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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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 some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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