All good writing leaves something unexpressed. — Christian Nestell Bovee Good writing Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. — Christian Nestell Bovee Children Copy Share Image
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons. — Christian Nestell Bovee Compensation Copy Share Image
It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another. — Christian Nestell Bovee Death Copy Share Image
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. — Christian Nestell Bovee Consciousness Copy Share Image
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Discretion Copy Share Image
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today. — Christian Nestell Bovee Labor Copy Share Image
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. — Christian Nestell Bovee Age Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages. — Christian Nestell Bovee Advantage Copy Share Image
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Best way Copy Share Image
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee Brave Copy Share Image
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Acts of kindness Copy Share Image
We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little… — Christian Nestell Bovee Inspirational Copy Share Image
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Acts of heroism Copy Share Image
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always… — Christian Nestell Bovee Art Copy Share Image
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled… — Christian Nestell Bovee Character Copy Share Image
Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best] — Christian Nestell Bovee Gratitude Copy Share Image
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. — Christian Nestell Bovee Existence Copy Share Image
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Economics Copy Share Image
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