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Famous Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
“Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today.”
“Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.”
“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”
“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”
“A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.”
“As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.”
“Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.”
“Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.”
“Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.”
“Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.”
“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”
“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”
“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”
“Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.”
“Hope is the best part of our riches.”