Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee

"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
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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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"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
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"Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."
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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
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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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"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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"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Our first and last love is self-love."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Doubt whom you will but never yourself."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Our first and last love is - self-love."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"When all else is lost the future still remains."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"Tearless grief bleeds inwardly"
Christian Nestell Bovee
"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
Christian Nestell Bovee
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