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Christian Nestell Bovee

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.


— Christian Nestell Bovee


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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.


— 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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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.


— 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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