Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHow 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!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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