Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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