Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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