black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Related Topics

Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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

Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Attention Excellence Prayer Result
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Greatness Life Small Sweet
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Bold Man Ourselves Past
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Action Finding Nature Thinking
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
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Curse Death Existence Fear World
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Friendship Virtue Weakness
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
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
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Double Suffering Trouble

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes