Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECommon sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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