Christian Nestell Bovee
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Biography
Christian Nestell Bovee was an epigrammatic New York City writer.
"Our first and last love is self-love."
"A book should be luminous but not voluminous."
""There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought."
"Perhaps no man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions, it may be said, are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
"Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power."
"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
"Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit."
"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
"They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers."
"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
"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."
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."
"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."
"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."
"When all else is lost the future still remains."
"Tearless grief bleeds inwardly"
"There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one."
"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
"Doubt whom you will but never yourself."
"The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it."