Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIf it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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