A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Nestell Bovee Quote

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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 Quote

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

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 Nestell Bovee Quote

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

Our first and last love is self-love.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

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 Quote

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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 Quote

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

When all else is lost, the future still remains.
- Christian Nestell Bovee Quote