We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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