We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHow like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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