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Christian Nestell Bovee

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


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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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.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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Our first and last love is self-love.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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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.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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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.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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About Christian Nestell Bovee






Did you know about Christian Nestell Bovee?

Bovee wrote two books that were widely quoted in contemporaneous compilations these being Intuitions and Summaries of Thought and Thoughts Feelings and Fancies. It was reported that Bovee "enjoyed the intimate friendship of Washington Irving Longfellow Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes and of all the brilliant men who composed at that time the Saturday Evening Club of Boston". He died in Philadelphia.

It was reported that Bovee "enjoyed the intimate friendship of Washington Irving Longfellow Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes and of all the brilliant men who composed at that time the Saturday Evening Club of Boston". He died in Philadelphia. Bovee 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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