Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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