A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA book should be luminous not voluminous.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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