Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes - Page 6

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• The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Eye, Soul

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• Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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  Running, Simplicity, Culture

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• It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Trying, Use

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Humility, Would Be, World

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• Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

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  Love, Rich, Week

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.30

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• The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

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  Men, Trouble, Earnest

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• If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

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  Book, Writing, Distinction

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• Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sorrow, Misery, Sorrowful

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.209

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• Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

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  Truth, Honesty, People

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• The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

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  Laziness, May, Disease

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• Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Age, Weakness, Should

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• The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

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  Work, Dreamer, Realization

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• Talk less about the years to come,
  Live, love labor more today.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Years, Today, Live Love

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• A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

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  Flower, Feelings, Letters

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

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  Work, Influence, Whole Life

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• It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

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  Sex, Women, Heart

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• Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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  Tombstone, Few Words, Dignity

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• It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Giving, Needs, Charity

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• Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

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  Wall, Race, Feelings

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• An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

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  Heart, Riches, Devotion

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

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• There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

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  Character, Reflection, Men

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• Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Anticipation, Trouble

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• Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

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  Retreat, Advantage, Wit

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• Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

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  Gay, Rose, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspiration, Enthusiasm For Life, Enthusiasm

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