Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes IV

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES IV

American author (1820-1904)

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

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He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

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Evils are to be traced to their sources, and struck at there. Like Barbary pirates, they are to be destroyed through the suppression of the state that sends them forth.

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For cowards the rode of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.

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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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Courage ennobles manhood; cowardice degrades it.

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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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Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

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I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

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If one could only tear down his character, as old buildings are torn down, and build it up anew, as these are rebuilt! And so, in effect, it can be. A noble property of character is, that it is susceptible of improvement.

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To become the master of his circumstances--to override them, as the stately ship overrides the waves, stormy or smooth, as her obedient element--not 'whelmed and lost in them--this is the aim and effort of every loftier nature.

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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

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Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

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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.