A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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