CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES VII

American author (1820-1904)

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For every great evil, apparently irremediable, there is reserved, it is probable, somewhere in the design of Providence, an effectual remedy.

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The wise build their doctrines--theological and philosophical--upon a basis of probabilities, never upon the foundation of absolute certainty.

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It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

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Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.

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To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

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The business of the historian is with the truth of things, but he is too much under temptation to make his history interesting, to be always able to reject a fine story.

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Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.

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Hatreds are the chimneys of the mind, serving to carry off the smoke of its pestilent humors.

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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of the mind. You pink your adversary and he is forthwith dead: and then you deserve to be hung for it.

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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

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We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

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Upon marrying, we need most to pray for one of two things in our partners--the love that blinds, or the good-nature that excuses.

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There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

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There are seasons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

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The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

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The thing most prejudicial to health is to be always thinking of it. It is, indeed, an indispensable requisite to the enjoyment of life and health, that little attention should be paid to little symptoms. One should not think himself dead until he is so.

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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

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Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants--forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

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