The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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 we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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