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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

Christian Nestell Bovee

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

Christian Nestell Bovee

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

Christian Nestell Bovee

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

Christian Nestell Bovee

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

Christian Nestell Bovee

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

Christian Nestell Bovee

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

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

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Christian Nestell Bovee

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

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

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

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