The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGive me the character and I will forecast the event.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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