15 Quotations by Christian Nestell Bovee
- 1. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
- 2. Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
- 3. Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
- 4. Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand w ...
- 5. Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
- 6. In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fir ...
- 7. It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss th ...
- 8. Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
- 9. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as real ...
- 10. Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
- 11. The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
- 12. The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a ...
- 13. The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
- 14. The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their exces ...
- 15. Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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