Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hunger And Poverty, World, Crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99

• In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Responsibility, Men, Important

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.100

• 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

• How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Tunnels, Light

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.13

• The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Anxiety, Other Half, Poverty

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.139

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