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Men Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
- No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
- We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
- Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
- The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow…
- In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
- Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
- Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
- All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
- Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him…
- Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
- Examples are few of men ruined by giving.
- It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a…
- The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
- The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a…
- The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by…
- Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
- It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.
- There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is…
- What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself…
- It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.
- The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
- 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…
- A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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