Quotes by Bovee, Christian Nevell

"Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites."

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on desire   

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on doubt
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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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on egotism   

"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on enthusiasm
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"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on example   

"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on eyes
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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on failure
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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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on fear
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"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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on fear   

"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on genius
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"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   

"A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on illusion
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"Imitation belittles."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on imitation
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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   

"Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on kindness
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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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"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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"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   

"The great artist is a slave to his ideals."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on art   

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on music
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"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on passion
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"Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on passion
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"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on perseverance
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"The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on planning   

"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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on progress   

"Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on quotations   

"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."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on rivalry   

"Our first and last love is... self-love."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on love
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"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on sensuality   

"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on simplicity   

"Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on smile
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"Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on beauty