Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGive me the character and I will forecast the event.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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