Greater Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

9 Greater quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee’s reflective prose appears in these nine brief quotes about becoming greater, offering a succinct, thoughtful take on personal ambition.

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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

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Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover…

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A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to…

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The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never…

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Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes.…

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Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert…

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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We…

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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

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There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

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A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter…

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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

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He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize…

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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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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something…

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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

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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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