The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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