The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithin the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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 small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble 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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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