No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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