A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMen, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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