Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The 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.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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