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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Mindset One Liner
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman