The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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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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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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