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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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