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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Formerly 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.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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