Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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