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About Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee (February 22, 1820 – January 18, 1904) was an epigrammatic New York writer.
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“A book should be luminous but not voluminous.”
“He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.”
“There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”
“Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.”
“The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.”
“What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.”
“Melancholy sees the worst of things,—things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.”
“Loose ideas on the subject of business will not answer. It must be reduced to something of a science. It has its principles, upon a knowledge and an application of which, success in it mainly depends.”
“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence.”
“"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.”
“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.”
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“Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.”
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“Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.”
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Christian Nestell Bovee on Fear
“He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.”
Christian Nestell Bovee on Light
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Christian Nestell Bovee on Language
“The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.”
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“There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”
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About Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee (February 22, 1820 – January 18, 1904) was an epigrammatic New York writer.
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