Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEconomy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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