Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes - Page 7

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• Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

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  Gratitude, Melancholy, Worst

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• The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

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  Life, Activity

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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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  Country, Home, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.164

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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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  Powerful, Maturity, Empires

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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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  Men, Good Man, Overcoming

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• There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

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  Heart, Long, Romance

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• It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

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  Influence, Relation, Circumstances

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• Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

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  Friendship, Weakness, Virtue

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

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  Courage, Desperate, Cowardice

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• Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

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  Men, Musical, Deceit

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• 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.

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  Wise, Men, Law

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

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• What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

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  Fear, Law, Instance

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• Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

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  Warrior, Greatness, Earthquakes

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• The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

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  Excuse

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Few minds wear out; more rust out.

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  Thinking, Curiosity, Mind

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• There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

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  Men, People, Kind

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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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  Character, Giving, Proud

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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

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  Ideas, Progress, Matter

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• Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

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  Gratitude, Pain, Spring

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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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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  Population, World, Existence

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• Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

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  Balls, Should, Cannons

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.157

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• Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

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  Flirting, Inspire, Transport

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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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  Women, Rocks, Charity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.215

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• Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

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  Art, Prayer, Excellence

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• Hope is the best part of our riches.

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  Hope, Riches

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

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