The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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