The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESomething of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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