Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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