Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with 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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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It 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.
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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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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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