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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Justice, not the majority, should rule.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is easier to die bravely than to live so.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importancethe sense of duty. — Christian Nestell Bovee
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Talk less about the years to come,Live, love labor more today. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
There is probably no hell for authors in the next worldthey suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. — C.N. Bovee
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, andprayer. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
As many suffer from too much as too little.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the worldwithout friends or country, home or kindred. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
— Christian Nestell Bovee
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Example has far more followers than reason.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel itto realize it to the full
to be a profound and inscrutable mystery. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Pure motives do not insure perfect results.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Books are embalmed minds.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee