There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen all else is lost, the future still remains.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees 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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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