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    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

    #baseless #beauty #fear #fears #going

    A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ↗


    — Christian Nestell Bovee

    #indicated #making #mistake #much #never

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


    — Christian Nestell Bovee

    #another #being #best #next #quote

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


    — Christian Nestell Bovee

    #better #eyes #lotion #nature #see

    Our first and last love is self-love. ↗


    — Christian Nestell Bovee

    #last #love #love is #our #self-love

    Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗


    — Christian Nestell Bovee

    #approximate #characters #example #followers #imitate

    Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ↗


    — Christian Nestell Bovee

    #fame #few #those #tombstone #truth

    Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗


    — Christian Nestell Bovee

    #length #makes #observations #out #talent

    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

    #ambition #aspired #graceful #indulgent #love

    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

    #cross #false #friends #instant #into






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    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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