He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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