Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHeaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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