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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nestell Bovee

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Depend Himself Talk
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Sun Time Truth
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Company Compose Depend
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Depend Fame Truth Word
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!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Childhood Future Life Man Poor
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Blood Grief Tear
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Goodness Wisdom
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Heart Load Love Ourselves Success