Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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