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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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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