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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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 BOVEE

Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Attention Excellence Prayer Result
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Depend Himself Talk
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
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Man Savage Society
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Better Development Law Progress Society