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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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