What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen all else is lost, the future still remains.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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 loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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 fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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