An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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