A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen all else is lost, the future still remains.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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He 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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