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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEconomy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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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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