We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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