Activity and sadness are incompatible.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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