CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES IV

American author (1820-1904)

Books are embalmed minds. They make the great of other days our present teachers.

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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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The rules of etiquette were established mostly by women, are chiefly for the benefit of women, and are mainly suited only to the nature of women; and a too punctilious observance of them by a man, goes to show that over-refinement has nearly unsexed him.

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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with 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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We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

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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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Unmerited compliments are the keenest reproaches.

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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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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 half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

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

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In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets.

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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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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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Next to living with honor is to die with honor.

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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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