When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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 our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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