No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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