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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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