Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESomething of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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