Winter is the night of vegetation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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