There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPoverty 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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA 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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAll men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESomething of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEToo much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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