All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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