Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHe must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Wit, 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.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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