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Christian Nestell Bovee was an American writer, philosopher, and theologian known for his works in moral philosophy, religion, and literary criticism.

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“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.”

Way Feels Seems Evil Felt Poverty Best Way Respectable

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.”

Men Way Action Half Dreamer Half Way

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.”

Way Character Passion Evil Energy Difficult Imagination Fire Dangerous Thousand Violent Controlled Excess Discretion Firmness No Energy

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.”

Way Given Pleasure Expectations Sticks Core Pursuit Apples Throat Appetite Weariness Ennui Satiety

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.”

Way Our Lives Generations Passing Passings

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”

Men Way Past Perseverance Boldness

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”

Way Passion Fire Dangerous Thousand Excess

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.”

Way May Beautiful Beauty Virtue Divine Goodness Appreciation Generosity Innocence Traits Modesty Heroism Cultivating Candor

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.”

Way Action Nature Power Of Thought

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.”

Way Ideas Matter Speak Given Progress Finals Atoms Delightful Profitable Never Ending

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.”

Ifs Men Way Littles Different States Practice Honest Amount Prison Different Ways Sufficient Deceit Honest Man

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.”

Way Ideas Age Action Events

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“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.”

Way Feelings Flower Direct Letters Fancy Rhetoric Quotations Love Letter Deviate True Feelings

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

About the Author

Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
Known for: Author
Quotes: 314

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