Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWeakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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