The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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