Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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 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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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