Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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How 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!
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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