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Christian Nestell Bovee

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.


— 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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