Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude, Evil, Lessons

• I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Knowing, Evil, Desire

• It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Passion, Character, Fire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

• Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Evil, Abuse, Satire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

• Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Evil, Action

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

• 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Evil, Doe, Belief

• Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Evil, Way, Poverty

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