Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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