Money Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

9 Money quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee treats money as a mirror of character, offering succinct observations that nudge readers toward self‑examination. Though limited in number, the quotes reveal his classic moral perspective on financial matters.

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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

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Hope is the best part of our riches.

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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich…

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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets,…

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One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life…

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Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is…

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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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