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 BOVEEA 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
-
-
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE






