The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEContentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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