The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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