Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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