C.N. Bovee Quotes

#1. To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

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#5. A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

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#6. There is probably no hell for authors in the next world
they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

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

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