Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFalse friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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