There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEconomy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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