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 BOVEEPoverty 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 BOVEEWhen we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDiscretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe 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 BOVEEGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWeakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHope is the best part of our riches.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEconomy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECourage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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