Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDifficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble 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 sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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