"An illusion dissipated is an experience gained." — Christian Nestell Bovee
"An illusion dissipated is an experience gained."
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180 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee has 180 quotes on this site.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the…
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in…
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other…
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done…
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against…
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The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away.…
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in…
— George Henry Lewes
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Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back…
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more…
— C.S. Lewis
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere…
— Emile Durkheim
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Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon…
— Maria Edgeworth
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All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals.…
— Gaylord Nelson
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I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a…
— David Berkowitz
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