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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Heart, Pockets, Riches

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Heart, Successful

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.38

It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Sex, Women, Heart

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Heart, Riches, Devotion

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Heart, Long, Romance

None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Heart, Eye

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Mother, Children, Heart

Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Hero, Heart, Persistence