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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENo man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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 knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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.
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