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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAlas, the transports beauty can inspire!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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