The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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