The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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