black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Childhood Future Life Man Poor

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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

Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
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
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Circumstance Happiness Pain
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Book Knowledge Value
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Food Greatness Material Music
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Direction Mark Word
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
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Instrument Man Music Play
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes