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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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