Friendship Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

8 Friendship quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee’s eight concise thoughts on friendship feel like classic maxims from a wise mentor. Their straightforward tone provides a quick, sincere reminder of the enduring value of loyal companions.

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Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit…

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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

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False friends are like our shadow, keep close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we…

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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time…

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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

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We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

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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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