Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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