Top 100 Bovee Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Bovee

#1. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

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#2. Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

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#3. A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good
a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

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#4. Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

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#5. Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

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#6. Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

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#7. A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

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#8. It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

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#9. In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

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

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#11. The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

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#12. It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

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#13. Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

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#14. A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

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#15. He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

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#16. We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

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

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#18. Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

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

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#20. One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.

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#21. Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

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#22. Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

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#23. Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

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#24. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

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#25. Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

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#26. Character is very much a matter of health.

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#27. It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

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#28. Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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#29. There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

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#30. The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

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#31. Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

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#32. Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

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#33. They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

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#34. To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world
without friends or country, home or kindred.

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#35. Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

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#36. Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

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#37. Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

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#38. The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

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#39. Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

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#40. The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

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#41. To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

C.N. Bovee

#42. The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

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#43. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

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#44. A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

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#45. He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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#46. Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

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#47. As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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#48. Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

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#49. Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

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#50. It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

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#51. The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

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#52. To cultivate a garden is ... to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes ...

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#53. The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

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#54. A great destiny needs a generous diet ... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

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#55. There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

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#56. A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

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#57. Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

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#58. The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

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#59. Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

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#60. It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

C.N. Bovee

#61. Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

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#62. 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.

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#63. The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

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#64. Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

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#65. In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

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#66. When all is lost, the future still remains.

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#67. Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

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#68. Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,
like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

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#69. 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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#70. Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and
prayer.

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#71. All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

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#72. We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

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#73. Books are embalmed minds.

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#74. In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

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#75. 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.

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#76. Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

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#77. Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power
that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

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#78. What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

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

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#80. In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose
one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

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#81. The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

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#82. God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

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#83. 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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#84. It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

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#85. We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

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

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#87. New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

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#88. Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

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#89. 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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