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Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes about Life

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Life, Fear, Ignorance

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Life, Future, Losing

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Life, Profound, Understanding
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.11

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Life, Sugar, Fancy

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Life, Reality, Relief

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Life, Noble, Rich
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.14

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Life, Literature, Courtesy

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Life, Activity

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