It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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