Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes - Page 13

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• Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Devotion, Faculty, Earnestness

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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• Justice, not the majority, should rule.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Justice, Majority, Should

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• The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Past, Emotion

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• The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Anxiety, Other Half, Poverty

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.139

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• Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, Religion, Matter

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• The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Juice, Matter

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.17

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• Character is very much a matter of health.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Matter

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• Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Yield, Mistress, Favors

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• 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

  Passion, Kissing, Heaven

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Power, Risk

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

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• 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

  Sarcasm, Mind, Irony

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

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• It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Resources, Thrown

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• We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Pain, Real

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• The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Excellence, Pursuit, Distinction

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