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Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Ambition category:
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. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Business category:
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Contentment category:
One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Courage category:
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Culture category:
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Desire category:
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Determination category:
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Doubt category:
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Drunkenness category:
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Earth category:
Earth took her shining station as a star, / In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Enthusiasm category:
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Faith category:
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Fame category:
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Fear category:
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Fear category:
Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Fire category:
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Friendship category:
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. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Future category:
When all else is lost, the future still remains. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Genius category:
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Goodness category:
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. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Greatness category:
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Happiness category:
Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Imitation category:
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Language category:
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Love category:
Our first and last love is self-love. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Mistakes category:
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Music category:
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Pleasure category:
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Politics category:
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Quotations category:
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Sadness category:
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Sadness category:
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Senses category:
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Strength category:
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Suffering category:
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Thinking category:
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Thought category:
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Christian Nestell Bovee - From the Vision category:
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship... (Christian Nestell Bovee)
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