The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithin the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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 with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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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 heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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