Christian Nestell Bovee
Author
1820-02-22
Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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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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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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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.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Active natures are rarely melancholy-activity and sadness are incompatible.
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