The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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