Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now content with the blood of birds and animals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Nestell Bovee
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