Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAll men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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