Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Pain, Light, Giving

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

• There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Skins, Weakness

• Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Age, Weakness, Should

• In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strong, Party, Yield

• Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Friendship, Weakness, Virtue

• Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Trying, Weakness

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

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