Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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