Stills Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee is known for pithy sayings, and here he turns his attention to stillness. Across eight short maxims he offers clear, memorable thoughts on why a pause can be powerful.

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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…

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Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes…

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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does…

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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that…

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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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The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always…

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There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

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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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