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.
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 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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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 book should be luminous not voluminous.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with 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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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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