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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHope is the best part of our riches.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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 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 passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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