Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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