Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens 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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