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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
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New York City
New York
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More quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable we do not expect him to be above it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
Christian Nestell Bovee
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Our first and last love is self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
