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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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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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