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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Curse Death Existence Fear World
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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
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 BOVEE

Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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