We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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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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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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