Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEActivity and sadness are incompatible.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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