The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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