Bovee, Christian Nevell

Quotes:

"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."

"Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites."

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

"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."

"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."

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