Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGreat warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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