Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGreat warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDoubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExample has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDiscretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithout death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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