Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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