Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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