CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES V

American author (1820-1904)

It is not meet that the strong, free limbs of manhood should be fettered by the silken threads of ceremony.

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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

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Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

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A book ... should resemble a tranquil lake, in whose glassy surface the varied wonders of the earth and sky are faithfully imaged.

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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.

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To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

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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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attributed, Day's Collacon


The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.

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The poor man finds happiness in economy; the rich man, misery.

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Next to living with honor is to die with honor.

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Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

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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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Habits influence the character pretty much as undercurrents influence a vessel, and whether they speed us on the way of our wishes, or retard our progress, their influence is not the less important because imperceptible.

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Genius makes its observations in short hand; talent writes them out at length.

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Courage and timidity are the accompaniments of opposite tendencies of thought. The brave think only of the blows they will strike; the timid of those they may receive.

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

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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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To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

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