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Quotations By Christian Nestell Bovee

Children

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Culture

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Deceit

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.

Deceit

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Discretion

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Discretion

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Economy

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Fame

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. -- Christian Nestell Bovee

Fear

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Intelligence

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

Kindness

Kindness is a language the dumb canspeak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Love

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.