Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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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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