A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens 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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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