"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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on egotism   

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on doubt
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"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on desire   

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on deception
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"Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on affliction
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"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."

Brown, Les on imagination
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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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on friends and friendship
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"When all else is lost, the future still remains."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on the future
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"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on 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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on life   

"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on leadership
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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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on kisses and kissing
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"Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on kindness
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"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on joy   

"Imitation belittles."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on imitation
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"A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on illusion
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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on genius
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"The great artist is a slave to his ideals."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on art   

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on honesty
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"Hope is the best part of our riches."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on hope
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"It is the nature of thought to find its way into action."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on ideas   

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love."

Francis of Assisi, St. on peace
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"Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."

Elk, Black on peace
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground."

Eliot, T. S. on peace
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"We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace
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"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace
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"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace   

"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe."

Eisenberg, Larry on peace
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"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."

Einstein, Albert on peace
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"That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on peace   

"When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?"

Frank, Borman on peace
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men."

Hill, Napoleon on peace   

"One sword keeps another in the sheath."

Herbert, George on peace