Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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