Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAlas, the transports beauty can inspire!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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