The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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