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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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