It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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