No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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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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