A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHope is the best part of our riches.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
-
-
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
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 -
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
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 -
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE