Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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