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Christian Nestell Bovee [1820-1904] American

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

Fear, Beauty, Brainy, Courage, Failure, Food, Future, Happiness, Imagination, Love, Music, Nature, Politics, Sad, Valentine's Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.		101
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.	Happiness	102
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.		103
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.	Nature, Sad	104
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.		105
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.		106
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.	Valentine's Day	107
When all else is lost, the future still remains.	Brainy, Future	108
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.	Food, Music	109
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.		110
Our first and last love is self-love.	Love	111
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.		112
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.		113
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.	Courage	114
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.	Beauty, Fear	115
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.	Imagination	116
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.		117
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.		118
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.	Fear	119
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.	Failure	120
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.	Fear	121
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.	Politics	122
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.		123
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.		124
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.		125
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.		126
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.		201
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.		202
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.		203
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.		204
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.		205
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.		206
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.		207
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.		208
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.		209
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.		210
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.		211
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.		212
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.		213
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.		214
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.		215
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.		216

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