Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in 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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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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