Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENothing 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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