“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 our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.” MenGreaterConstitutionSeriesRoundsVicesComplainingFollyDeceitUnhappinessFraudInherentPettyDegradeKnaves Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.” WellsFightingEnergyLostImaginationEnemyGreaterDangerDareVisiblePanicPerilPresentingAvert Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.” DifferencesGreaterOver ItQuarrels Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.” MayWarStatesGreaterCitizensEssenceDetailsBarbarismInhumanityRelapse Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.” HardFactsPurposeStrongDealsGreaterConquerWillpowerMarbleFacts Of LifeSculptorsStubbornnessStrong Will Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.” GreaterAdvantageWitRetreatDilemmaDeficiency Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.” WorldHappensHalfPovertyGreaterAnxietyOther HalfExaggerated Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.” IdeasGreaterProgressEndlessSuccession Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.” LifeLiteratureGreaterCourtesyCourtesy Manners Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
