It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
-
-
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 -
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
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 -
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
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 -
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE