A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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