To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAlas, the transports beauty can inspire!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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