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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It 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.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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