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Christian Nestell Bovee has 180 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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 the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss…
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
— Fanny Kemble
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I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a…
— Clyde Tombaugh
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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
— Horace
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One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field…
— Golda Meir
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you…
— Khalil Gibran
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Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field…
— Ernest Hemingway
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It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone…
— W. P. Kinsella
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To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a…
— Clyde Tombaugh
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