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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• Activity and sadness are incompatible.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Positive, Sadness, Activity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Motivational, Strong, Determination

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• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Cry

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• Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Sugar, Fancy

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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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• 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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• 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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• The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Slave, Ideals

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

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  Heaven, Soul, Literature

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• Winter is the night of vegetation.

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  Winter, Night, Vegetation

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

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  Writing, Hands, Genius

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• A book should be luminous not voluminous.

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  Book, Writing, Should

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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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• 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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