Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWeakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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