Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDiscretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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