Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Our first and last love is self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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