CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES VI

American author (1820-1904)

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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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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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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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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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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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

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

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We are far more the creatures of our ideas than of our circumstances.

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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

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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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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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We serve the devil in our youth, God in our old age--thinking if we journey towards hell while our limbs are sound, we can turn when they fail us, and get to heaven on crutches.

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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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A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

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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.

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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

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It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

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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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