There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFormerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEELife is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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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