"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without……" — Christian Nestell Bovee
"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."
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Christian Nestell Bovee
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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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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a…
— Fanny Fern
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does…
— Phyllis Bottome
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I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered…
— John Brown
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Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is…
— Teresa of Avila
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
— Seneca the Younger
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
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Dangers by being despised grow great.
— Edmund Burke
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