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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Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

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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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Example has far more followers than reason.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Example, Followers, Reason

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

Beauty, Beautiful, Giving

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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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As many suffer from too much as too little.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Suffering, Littles, Too Much

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.138

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Nature, Character, Men

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Positive, Sadness, Activity

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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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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Causes, Matrimony, Enterprising

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.49

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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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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Inspirational, Beauty

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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Grief, Losing A Loved One, Cry

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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Heaven, Soul, Literature

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

Inspirational, Happiness, Reality

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

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Business, War, Made

"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 82), 1862.

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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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It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

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Passion, Character, Fire

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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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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Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
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