69 Quotations by John Christian Bovee
- 1. A book should be luminous not voluminous.

- 2. A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

- 3. A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

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

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

- 6. All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

- 7. Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

- 8. Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements ...

- 9. Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggrav ...

- 10. Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and conf ...

- 11. Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

- 12. Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it no ...

- 13. Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, ...

- 14. Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to ...

- 15. Examples are few of men ruined by giving. Men are heroes in spending, cravens in what they give.

- 16. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us ...

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

- 18. For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, bu ...

- 19. Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes ar ...

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

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