Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Fear, Ignorance

• When all else is lost, the future still remains.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Future, Losing

• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Literature, Courtesy

• The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Activity

• Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Noble, Rich

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.14

• Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Reality, Relief

• Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Sugar, Fancy

• The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Profound, Understanding

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.11

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