Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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