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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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Art
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Authors & Writing
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Beauty
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.
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Bravery
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Business
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
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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.
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Chance
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Character
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Children
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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Confidence
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Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Conscience
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Cowardice/Weakness
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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
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Crying
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Deception/Lying
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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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Desires
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Doubt
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Ego
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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.
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Enthusiasm
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Example
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Eyes
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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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Failure
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Fear
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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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.
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Books by and about Christian Nevell Bovee