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“Pure motives do not insure perfect results.”

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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. more

“The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.”

Needs Heart Art Stills Speak Language Easy Difficult Simple Teach Periods Harmony Rhetoric Oratory

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.”

Past Emotion

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“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!”

Men Ends Light Poor Poverty Childhood Tunnels Gloom Poor Man Railway Future Life Extremity

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.”

People Way Writing Fashion Style Industry Models Dresses Inspired Singers Admire Icons Be Inspired Fashion Industry Gaga Style Icons

Author:Ellie Goulding

“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.”

World Happens Half Poverty Greater Anxiety Other Half Exaggerated

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.”

May Prejudice Fancy Wiser

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.”

Journey

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.”

Ideas Greater Progress Endless Succession

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.”

Matter Feelings Religion Opinion Genuine

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.”

States Repose Stagnation Felicity

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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