It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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