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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
By Christian Nevell Bovee
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
By Christian Nevell Bovee
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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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.
By Christian Nevell Bovee
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
By Christian Nevell Bovee
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
By Christian Nevell Bovee