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| Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| 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 | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| 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 | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| 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 | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| 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 | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
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| When all else is lost, the future still remains. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Hope is the best part of our riches. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Imitation belittles. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| 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 | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
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| Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favourable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigour. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| 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 | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| 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 | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Our first and last love is... self-love. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
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| Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Bad taste is a species of bad morals. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| A book should be luminous not voluminous. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows? | Christian Slater | 1969-, American Actor |
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| I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage] | Christie Brinkley | 1954-, American Model, Actress |
| And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| Obedience is the fruit of faith. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on... | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
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