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.
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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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