A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFour sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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 profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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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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