Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
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blow wind may
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.
followers example reason
Example has far more followers than reason.
want bread falstaff
Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
excellence distinction pursuit
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
wise men law
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.
love ambition successful
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.
self names ego
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.
men trying weakness
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
winter night vegetation
Winter is the night of vegetation.
mind lightning brilliant
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
years today live-love
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today.
evil doe belief
God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
pushing invisible graves
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
inspirational
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.