The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
-
-
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE