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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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