Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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 grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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