An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECourage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
-
-
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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 -
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 -
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Winter is the night of vegetation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE