Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
ideas progress finals
Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable....
flirting inspire transport
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
hunger-and-poverty world crime
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
father doubt pioneers
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
leadership mistake character
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
passion feelings looks
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
blow wind may
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
iron negativity feelings
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
next firsts merit
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
flower feelings letters
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
two light lamps
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
freedom tyrants customs
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
ideas age way
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.
taste moral species
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.