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“Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.”

Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee

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

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“We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.”

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“The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.”

Book:Summaries of Thought

Source: Summaries of Thought

“The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

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

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Book:Summaries of Thought

Source: Summaries of Thought

“Winter is the night of vegetation.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Virtue is health, vice is sickness.”

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