black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

Christian Nestell Bovee

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Happiness Kind Man Reality
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
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Double Suffering Trouble
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Food Greatness Material Music
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Friendship Virtue Weakness
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
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
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
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

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes