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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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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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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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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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Character, Giving, Events

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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Inspirational, Beauty

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Positive, Sadness, Activity

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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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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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Example has far more followers than reason.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Example, Followers, Reason

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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Grief, Losing A Loved One, Cry

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

Nature, Way, Action

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

Motivational, Strong, Determination

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Art, Slave, Ideals

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A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Book, Writing, Should

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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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Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
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