Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEconomy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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