Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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