Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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