Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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