Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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• Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Fear, Ignorance

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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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• A book should be luminous not voluminous.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Writing, Should

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heaven, Soul, Literature

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• It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Blow, Wind, May

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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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• Our first and last love is self-love.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

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• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Fear, Anxiety

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• The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Profound, Understanding

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.11

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• The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Slave, Ideals

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• Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Trying, Weakness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Perseverance, Past, Men

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• Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Example, Followers

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

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• Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Goodness, Cheerfulness

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• Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Savages, Littles

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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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• Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Kindness, Flower

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

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• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Literature, Courtesy

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• Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Self, Names, Consciousness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Running, Simplicity, Culture

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