A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in 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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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