Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHeaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExample has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords 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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECourage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere 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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEToo much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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