The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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 passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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