John Frederick Boyes Quotes

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

John Frederick Boyes
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

John Frederick Boyes
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

John Frederick Boyes
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

John Frederick Boyes
We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

John Frederick Boyes
There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.

John Frederick Boyes
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.

John Frederick Boyes
There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!

John Frederick Boyes
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

John Frederick Boyes
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

John Frederick Boyes