Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Dignity 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.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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 only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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