Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes - Page 9

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• The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

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  Tears, Departure, Noise

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

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• The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

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  Justice, Criticism, Balance

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• The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

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  Self, Morbid, Cures

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

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  Character, Skins, Weakness

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• The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

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  Self, Worst, Delusion

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• All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

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  Writing, Good Writing

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• Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

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  Children, Flower, Sun

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

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• The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.

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  Death, Loss, Heaven

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• Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

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  Leadership, Mistake, Character

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• Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Greatness

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" by Louis Klopsch, (p. 133), 1896.

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• It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

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  Adventure, Men, Adventurer

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

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• Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

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  Ambition, Ambitious, Kingdoms

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• It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

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  Beauty, Art, Charm

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• Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

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  Beauty, Laughing, Distinction

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• In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

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  Art, School, Two

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• When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

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  Mean, Desire, Pay

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• A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

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  Art, Style, Peculiar

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.22

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• An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

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  Ambition, Progress, Aim

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• A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

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  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

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  Ambition, Keys, Voice

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• The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

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  Animal, Men, Stones

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• Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

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  Love, Heart, Rhetoric

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

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• To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Garden

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• It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

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  Tree, Degrees, May

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.179

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• Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

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  War, Essence, Details

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