"To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of……" — Christian Nestell Bovee
"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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Christian Nestell Bovee
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180 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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