The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHeaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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