"We trifle when we assign limits to our……" — Christian Nestell Bovee
"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."
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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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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by…
— Winston Churchill
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable…
— Giordano Bruno
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and…
— Aristotle
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
— Tony Robbins
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You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is…
— Unknown Author
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
— Ani DiFranco
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Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People…
— George Washington
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the…
— Sigmund Freud
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
— Marianne Moore
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign…
— David Byrne
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