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 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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It 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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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