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 BOVEEWe make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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