Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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