Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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