Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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