Poor Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

8 Poor quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Bovee’s pithy moral thoughts on scarcity are presented in eight short lines. They give a quick taste of his ethical outlook.

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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…

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

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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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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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In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

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God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their…

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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and…

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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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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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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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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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