What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to 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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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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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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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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