Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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