It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEELike the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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