The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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