Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETearless grief bleeds inwardly.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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