Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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