Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

American - Author | February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

Our first and last love is self-love.

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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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