A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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