Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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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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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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