Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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