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Christian Nestell Bovee

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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
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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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner

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