We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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