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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPoverty 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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhat we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHeaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEELife is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESomething of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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 BOVEEWithin the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEToo much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHe must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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