Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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 nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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