Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDoubt whom you will, but never yourself.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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