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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Charity Money Stand
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Sun Time Truth
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
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
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Education Institution Rare
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Audacity Enterprise Planning
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 BOVEE

Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
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

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