Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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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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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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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.
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