False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Words 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.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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