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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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