Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFew minds wear out; more rust out.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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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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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.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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.
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