Books Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

9 Books quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Bovee’s short reflections on books convey a timeless appreciation for wisdom, giving a brief yet elegant glimpse into his literary perspective.

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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

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A book should be luminous not voluminous.

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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of…

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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior…

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In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the…

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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the…

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The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is…

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However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as…

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What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb…

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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

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There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

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A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

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Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a…

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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter…

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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

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He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize…

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In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something…

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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

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It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

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