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• It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Causes, Done, May

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• Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Father, Philosophy, Doubt

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• Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Past, History, Gold

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• Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hope, Heaven, Soul

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.139

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• The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Opinion, Misanthropy, Evidence

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.54

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• Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Journey

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• Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Endless

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• Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  States, Felicity, Stagnation

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.134

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• Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Ambition, Division

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.40

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• Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

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  Beauty, Delight, Mortals

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Brave, Desperate

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• Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fear, Imagination, Worry

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• Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

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  Nature, Sadness, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.166

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• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Adversity, Doe, Literature

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• Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Saint, Christian Living

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• Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Stars, Dark, Heaven

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• Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Taste, Moral, Species

  "They Shoot Footage, Don’t They?" by Ellen Leventry, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

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  Hunger And Poverty, World, Crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99

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• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

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  Men, Practice, Different

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• The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Imperfection, Criticism, Finals

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• Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Father, Doubt, Pioneers

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• The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

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  Ideas, Age, Events

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• The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Light, Two, Lamps

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.16

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• To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Profound

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.123

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• The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Thinking, Agents

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