Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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