Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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