The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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