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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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 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.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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