black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Related Topics

Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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

Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Grave Soul Yourself
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

Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Blood Grief Tear
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Activity One Liner Sadness
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
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

Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
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

Childhood Future Life Man Poor
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

Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Beyond Excuse Knowledge
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Character Difference Man Nature

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes