There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in 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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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