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.
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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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