The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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