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.

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  Life, Fear, Ignorance

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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.

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  Love, Passion, Kissing

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

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

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  Life, Future, Losing

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

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  Sweet, Kissing, Two

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

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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.

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  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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

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  Heaven, Soul, Literature

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• Our first and last love is self-love.

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  Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

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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.

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  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.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Reality

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

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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.

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  Life, Profound, Understanding

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Anxiety

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

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  Men, Savages, Littles

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

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  Music, Clothes, Shelter

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

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  Running, Simplicity, Culture

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

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  Truth, Sun, Submit

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

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  Causes, Matrimony, Enterprising

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

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• The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

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  Art, Slave, Ideals

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• The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

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  Book, Eye, Soul

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• It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

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  Alaska, Unseen, Literature

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• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

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  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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• We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

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  Nature, Desire, Literature

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

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  Character, Example, Followers

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

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