black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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

Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Character Observation Person Smile
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
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Character Event Myself
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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

Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Blood Grief Tear
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Bold Man Ourselves Past
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
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

Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Aware Consciousness Name
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
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

Charity Money Stand
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Book Knowledge Value

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0