Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes and sayings page 3 (author). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 42 we have.
“Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.”
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”
“Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.”
“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”
“Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.”
“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
“As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.”
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