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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nestell Bovee
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
Christian Nestell Bovee
New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
Christian Nestell Bovee
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
Christian Nestell Bovee
