Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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