We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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