Words matter. These are the best Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven’s dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Our first and last love is self-love.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
