What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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