It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDoubt whom you will, but never yourself.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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