Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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