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 BOVEEDiscretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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