Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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