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When we have the means to pay ...

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

A great destiny needs a genero...

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

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The less the difference, the g...

The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

A particular disappointment is...

A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Besides the five senses, there...

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

I desire to go through life kn...

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.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

It is not the number of facts ...

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

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

To no circumstance is the wide...

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.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

We absolve a friend from grati...

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

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Elements of the heroic exist i...

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

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Perhaps the heroic element in ...

Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

By his provocations to good-na...

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

An illusion dissipated is an e...

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The language denotes the man. ...

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

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The cause of laziness is physi...

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Who aspires to remain leader m...

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Within the sacred walls of lib...

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Life is indeed either a rich p...

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Life being full of harsh reali...

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

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Logic invents as many fallacie...

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

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