Activity and sadness are incompatible.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Dignity 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.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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