Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Fear, Anxiety

• Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heaven, Soul, Literature

• It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Alaska, Unseen, Literature

• Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Good Man, Overcoming

• Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Sadness, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.166

• A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mistake, Sound, Literature

• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Adversity, Doe, Literature

• In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Ambition, Successful

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.140

• Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Example, Followers

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

• Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Running, Simplicity, Culture

• We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Desire, Literature

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Literature, Courtesy

• The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Choices, Battle, Half

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.26

• Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Stars, Dark, Heaven

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