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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

Topics: Anxiety Beauty Fear Fears Going Great Half Life Other Our Through Without

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

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Topics: Assign Desires Hath Limits Nature None Our Set Since Trifle

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Allied Another Closely Cure Egotism Excessive Less Make Morbid More Name Objects Only Our Self-Consciousness Selves Sensibilities Sensibility Tender

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

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Admire Characters Example Followers Imitate More Most Pleases Reason Than Us

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

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Determination Enough Failure Only Our Strong Succeed

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

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Genius Length Makes Observations Out Talent Them Writes

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

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Clothes First Food Fourth Great Material Music Shelter Then Want

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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Better Development Grow Law Laws Men Older Progressive Societies Sweep Things Wide Wiser

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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

Topics: Afford Ambition Aspired Graceful Indulgent Love Merit Our Own Prize Recognize Rivals Successful Toward

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

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Body Coffin Dead Soul

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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