It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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 nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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