The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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