Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDifficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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