Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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