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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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