Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Age
Garlands
Interest
Withered
Feelings
Roses
Like
Melancholy
Command
Gay
Rose
Youth
Garland
More quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
Christian Nestell Bovee
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
Christian Nestell Bovee
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Few minds wear out more rust out.
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
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Justice, not the majority, should rule.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
Christian Nestell Bovee
Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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
