A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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 most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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