It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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