The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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