A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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