Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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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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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.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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