When all else is lost, the future still remains.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENo man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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