Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
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CountryUnited States of America
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
years today live-love
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today.
evil doe belief
God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
way generations passing
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.
pushing invisible graves
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
taken loss greatness
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.
eye world miserable
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.
holiday play effort
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
mind lightning brilliant
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
winter night vegetation
Winter is the night of vegetation.
excellence distinction pursuit
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
excuse
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
warrior greatness earthquakes
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
yield mistress favors
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
journey
Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.