Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMen, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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