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 BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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