The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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.
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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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