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Our first and last love is... self-love. Christian Nevell Bovee - Self-love
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. Christian Nevell Bovee - Perseverance
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. Christian Nevell Bovee - Arts and Artists
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. Christian Nevell Bovee - Courage
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. Christian Nevell Bovee - Music
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. Christian Nevell Bovee - Kisses and Kissing
Imitation belittles. Christian Nevell Bovee - Imitation
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. Christian Nevell Bovee - Fear
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war. Christian Nevell Bovee - Business
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. Christian Nevell Bovee - Conscience
Bad taste is a species of bad morals. Christian Nevell Bovee - Taste
Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. Christian Nevell Bovee - Smile
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. Christian Nevell Bovee - Affliction
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. Christian Nevell Bovee - Kindness
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore. Christian Nevell Bovee - Circumstance
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. Christian Nevell Bovee - Fear
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 Nevell Bovee - Egotism
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. Christian Nevell Bovee - Unemployment
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness. Christian Nevell Bovee - Beauty
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. Christian Nevell Bovee - Leaders and Leadership
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. Christian Nevell Bovee - Planning
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. Christian Nevell Bovee - Passion
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. Christian Nevell Bovee - Cheerfulness
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. Christian Nevell Bovee - Confidence
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Christian Nevell Bovee - Failure
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nevell Bovee - Deception
When all else is lost, the future still remains. Christian Nevell Bovee - Future
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. Christian Nevell Bovee - Life and Living
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. Christian Nevell Bovee - Genius
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. Christian Nevell Bovee - Tears
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. Christian Nevell Bovee - Example
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 Nevell Bovee - Rivalry
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. Christian Nevell Bovee - Fear
A book should be luminous not voluminous. Christian Nevell Bovee - Writers and Writing
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Christian Nevell Bovee - Joy
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. Christian Nevell Bovee - Desire
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. Christian Nevell Bovee - Simplicity
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. Christian Nevell Bovee - Courtesy
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. Christian Nevell Bovee - Passion
Hope is the best part of our riches. Christian Nevell Bovee - Hope
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. Christian Nevell Bovee - Eyes
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. Christian Nevell Bovee - Alcohol and Alcoholism
The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it. Christian Nevell Bovee - Beauty
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. Christian Nevell Bovee - Virtue
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. Christian Nevell Bovee - Sensuality
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. Christian Nevell Bovee - Illusion
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. Christian Nevell Bovee - Virtue
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears. Christian Nevell Bovee - Coward and Cowardice
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. Christian Nevell Bovee - Honesty
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. Christian Nevell Bovee - Thoughts and Thinking
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. Christian Nevell Bovee - Doubt
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 Nevell Bovee - Friends and Friendship
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. Christian Nevell Bovee - Ideas
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 Nevell Bovee - Progress
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. Christian Nevell Bovee - Character
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. Christian Nevell Bovee - Quotations
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. Christian Nevell Bovee - Enthusiasm
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. Christian Nevell Bovee - Children
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