Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wall, Race, Feelings

• Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gay, Rose, Feelings

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

• 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Flower, Feelings, Letters

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

• Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, Religion, Matter

• He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, News, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

• 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Holiday, Play, Effort

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

• It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

• To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Profound

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.123

• Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Iron, Negativity, Feelings

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

• Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Passion, Feelings, Looks

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