It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to 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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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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 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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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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