A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECourage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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