Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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