Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
1820–1904 United States
Christian Nestell Bovee (February 22, 1820 – January 18, 1904) was an epigrammatic New York writer.
Also known as: Bovee, Christian Nestell, C. Nestell Bovee, Christian Bovee, Christian N. Bovee
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"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.
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862)
The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," — it is greatness itself.
A great thought is a great boon, for which God is to be the first thanked, then he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the man who is the first to quote it to us.
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.
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862)
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence.
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862)
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
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