Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes about Love

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Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

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 Bovee

Love, Passion, Kissing

"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Heart, Successful

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.38

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Rich, Week

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.30

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Littles, Reason

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.42

None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Heart, Eye

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Gay, Expression

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Ambition, Successful

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.140