"A profusion of fancies and quotations is out……" — Christian Nestell Bovee
"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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184 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
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- False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the…
- Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
- It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in…
- Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
- There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other…
- Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
- A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
- Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
- Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
- Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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