Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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 loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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