Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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