Quote

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
bovee
C. N. Bovee
Almost
Affection
Child
Warm
Indeed
Words
Praise
Children
Kindness
Genial
Life
Sun
Judicious
Flower
Acts
Necessary
Flowers

More quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Image
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Image
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee