We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen all else is lost, the future still remains.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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