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
feelings religion matter
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
ideas progress endless
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.
journey
Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.
anxiety world other-half
The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.
anticipation trouble
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
beauty delight mortals
Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
disappointment party earth
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.
five-senses importance duty
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
knowing evil desire
I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.
men numbers facts
It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.
data errors world
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.
gratitude favors
We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.
hero development elements
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.
fancy prejudice may
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.