Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDiscretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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 our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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 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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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