A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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