Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
progress prejudice obstacles
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
errors support bases
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.
fate hawks resentment
Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
retirement long doe
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.
evil abuse satire
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
luxury slavery
Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.
strong honesty greatness
The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," it is greatness itself.
hunting animal blood
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.
winter men vanity
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.
hope heaven soul
Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
friendship weakness virtue
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
devotion faculty earnestness
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
father philosophy doubt
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
complaining complaints pitiful
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.