Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
-
-
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Wit 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 BOVEE -
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE