All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGive me the character and I will forecast the event.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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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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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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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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 most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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