Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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.
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