Christian Nestell Bovee
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
beauty
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
best
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
courage
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
failure
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
faith
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
fear
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
fear
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
fear
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
food
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
future
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
great
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
happiness
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
imagination
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
music
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
nature
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
nature
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
politics
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
truth
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