Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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