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 BOVEEDignity 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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