When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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