Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDignity 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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 beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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