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 BOVEEThe loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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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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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.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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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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