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Flower Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

8 Flower quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee’s eight brief musings on blossoms provide a compact window into his reflections on nature. The selection is short, yet each piece offers a distinct angle, making it a useful starting point for readers interested in his take on floral imagery.

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

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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees…

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“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful…

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Winter is the night of vegetation.

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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection.…

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

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

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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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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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