A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHope is the best part of our riches.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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