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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave. (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes... (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other’s thoughts. (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni! (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer’s voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing. (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Our first and last love is self-love (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Give me the character and I will forecast the event (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
It is easier to die bravely than to live so (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
An illusion dissipated is an experience gained (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
It is the life of democracy to favor equality (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)