What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Fortune Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Able Copy Share Image
There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel. — Christian Nestell Bovee Bows Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Character Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Genuine Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert… — Christian Nestell Bovee Anxiety Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first… — Christian Nestell Bovee Boon Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Crime Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Action Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Concessions Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Dishes Copy Share Image
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Awakened Copy Share Image
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed. — Christian Nestell Bovee Business Copy Share Image
It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man. — Christian Nestell Bovee Facts Copy Share Image
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but… — Christian Nestell Bovee Alaska Copy Share Image
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect… — Christian Nestell Bovee Aim Copy Share Image
It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees… — Christian Nestell Bovee Curious Copy Share Image
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Economics Copy Share Image
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Application Copy Share Image
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals. — Christian Nestell Bovee Animal Copy Share Image
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. — Christian Nestell Bovee Delusion Copy Share Image
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action. — Christian Nestell Bovee Action Copy Share Image
The body of the sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. — Christian Nestell Bovee Body Copy Share Image
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee Anticipation Copy Share Image
