The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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