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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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