Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEKindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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