Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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