The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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