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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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