Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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