Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
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Famous Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.”
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“The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.”
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“It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.”
“It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.”
“Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.”
“The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.”
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“Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.”
“Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.”
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“Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.”
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“Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.”
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“It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.”
“The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.”
“Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.”
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“Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.”
“The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.”
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Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
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“To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.”