Best Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee (Top 10)
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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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.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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.
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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