Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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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 beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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