Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
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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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom

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