Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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
Labor
Faith
Next
More quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
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
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.
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
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
Christian Nestell Bovee
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
Christian Nestell Bovee
It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
Christian Nestell Bovee
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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
As many suffer from too much as too little.
Christian Nestell Bovee
