Winter is the night of vegetation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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