CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES V

American author (1820-1904)

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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All greatness in performance rests upon a basis of details. A knowledge of what is general to a subject may suffice for the merely learned man, but a thorough knowledge of details is necessary to form the adept.

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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


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

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Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

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Singularity in dress argues eccentricity of character. A queer cut of the coat represents a crotchet in the brain.

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

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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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Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws.

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It requires a great genius to flatter successfully a great personage. The common arts of adulation are thrown away upon the exalted. They are so accustomed to these that they take little notice.

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

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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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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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As well might a flower complain of the bee which its sweetness attracts, as a pretty girl of being gazed at when she goes abroad. But the complaint is seldom made in earnest.

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Great crimes seldom spring from any sudden demoralization in the natures of their perpetrators. What seems a fearful precipitation of character, is usually no more than the rending of a veil from the hitherto concealed parts of it.

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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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Next to living with honor is to die with honor.

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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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