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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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