A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDignity 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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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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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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