Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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 only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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