Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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

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• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

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• Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

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

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

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• We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

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• We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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

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• They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

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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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• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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• The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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• The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

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• The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

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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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• The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

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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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• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

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Christian Nestell Bovee (43)

Birth:	22nd February, 1820
Death:	1904
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Christian Nestell Bovee was born in New York City. He was an American writer. He wrote two books that were widely quoted in contemporaneous compilations, these being Intuitions and Summaries of Thought and Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies.

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