Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHeaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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