Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit, 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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