Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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