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
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
taken loss greatness
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.
eye world miserable
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.
positive sadness activity
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
courage desperate cowardice
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
hunger-and-poverty world crime
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
responsibility men important
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
book writing should
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
loss sincerity
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
honesty people faults
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
yield half defeat
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
heart long romance
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
courtesy courtesy-manners greater
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
taste moral species
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
beautiful pride roots
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.