It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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