Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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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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