In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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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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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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