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“By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.”

Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee was an American writer, philosopher, and theologian known for his works in moral philosophy, religion, and literary criticism. more

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.”

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“Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.”

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“Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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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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“Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.”

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“None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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“We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought