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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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