The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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