83 ordspråk av Christian Nevell Bovee
Christian Nevell Bovee
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered
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It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered
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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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It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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