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 BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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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 cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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