The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. by Christian Nestell Bovee

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. by Christian Nestell Bovee

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

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When all else is lost, the future still remains. by Christian Nestell Bovee

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. by Christian Nestell Bovee

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

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Our first and last love is self-love. by Christian Nestell Bovee

Our first and last love is self-love.

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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

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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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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. by Christian Nestell Bovee

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. by Christian Nestell Bovee

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity... by Christian Nestell Bovee

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes... by Christian Nestell Bovee

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. by Christian Nestell Bovee

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, o... by Christian Nestell Bovee

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals. by Christian Nestell Bovee

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less... by Christian Nestell Bovee

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

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