Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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• We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Fear, Ignorance

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• Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• When all else is lost, the future still remains.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Future, Losing

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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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Passion, Kissing

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

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• Our first and last love is self-love.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

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• The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Vitality, Audacity, Vigor

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• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Years, Cheerful

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• Example has far more followers than reason.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Example, Followers, Reason

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• The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Witty, Self, Able

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

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• We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Giving

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• Activity and sadness are incompatible.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Positive, Sadness, Activity

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• A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Destiny, People, Needs

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• Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Giving, Events

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• Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Truth, Sun, Submit

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• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Hands, Genius

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• The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

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  Inspirational, Beauty

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• Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Oysters, Contentment, Elements

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• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Reality

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

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• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Cry

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• Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sweet, Kissing, Two

  "Pearls of Thought" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 142), 1882.

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• It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

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  Nature, Way, Action

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• Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Music, Clothes, Shelter

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• A book should be luminous not voluminous.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Writing, Should

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• We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

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  Perseverance, Past, Men

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