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
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
ideas slavery
Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.
men faces portraits
A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
passion fire long
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
passion character fire
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.
tired thinking pleasure
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
done may littles
We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
sex women heart
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.
passion feelings looks
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
passion kissing heaven
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
passion mountain genuine
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
character skins freckles
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
mother children heart
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
self morbid cures
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
causes matrimony enterprising
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.