The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAlas, the transports beauty can inspire!
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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