The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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