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Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) 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!  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) 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  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes) In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers  (Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes)
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