Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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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 sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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