To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFalse 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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