Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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