Feelings Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

9 Feelings quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee’s nine timeless reflections on feelings blend wisdom with gentle insight, perfect for a quick contemplative pause.

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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

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

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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into…

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches…

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Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will;…

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It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he…

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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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