Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWithin the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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