The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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A 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.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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