Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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