Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDoubt whom you will, but never yourself.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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