Christian Nevell Bovee
35 quotations
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Hope is the best part of our riches.
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
Imitation belittles.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.