The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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