Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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book style add
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
believe writing men
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.
next firsts merit
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
beautiful appreciation profound
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.
iron negativity feelings
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
two light lamps
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
freedom tyrants customs
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
gratitude pain spring
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.
imperfection criticism attention
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
educational common-sense commodity
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
men giving example
Examples are few of men ruined by giving.
father doubt pioneers
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
inspiration enthusiasm-for-life enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
ideas age way
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.