Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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 is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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 our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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