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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Company Compose Depend
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Better Development Law Progress Society
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Friendship Virtue Weakness
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Circumstance Happiness Pain
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Goodness Wisdom
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Mindset One Liner