Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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