Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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