Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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 nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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