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
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.
way generations passing
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.
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.
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.
holiday play effort
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
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.