Top 200 Christian N. Bovee Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself.”

— Christian N. Bovee

2. “When all else is lost, the future still remains.”

— Christian N. Bovee

3. “Our first and last love is self-love.”

— Christian N. Bovee

4. “No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

— Christian N. Bovee

5. “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.”

— Christian N. Bovee

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6. “The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.”

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7. “To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.”

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8. “Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.”

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9. “Few minds wear out; more rust out.”

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10. “A mother is the best friend God ever gave.”

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11. “The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student’s lamp.”

— Christian N. Bovee

12. “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.”

— Christian N. Bovee

13. “The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.”

— Christian N. Bovee

14. “The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.”

— Christian N. Bovee

15. “To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.”

— Christian N. Bovee

16. “There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.”

— Christian N. Bovee

17. “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.”

— Christian N. Bovee

18. “Activity and sadness are incompatible.”

— Christian N. Bovee

19. “Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.”

— Christian N. Bovee

20. “Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.”

— Christian N. Bovee

21. “Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.”

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22. “Example has far more followers than reason.”

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23. “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!”

— Christian N. Bovee

24. “Books are embalmed minds.”

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25. “There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”

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26. “Pure motives do not insure perfect results.”

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27. “It is easier to die bravely than to live so.”

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28. “It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.”

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29. “Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.”

— Christian N. Bovee

30. “Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.”

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31. “It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.”

— Christian N. Bovee

32. “Successful minds work like a gimlet – to a single point.”

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33. “The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.”

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34. “The worst deluded are the self-deluded.”

— Christian N. Bovee

35. “The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.”

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36. “The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.”

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37. “The body of the sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.”

— Christian N. Bovee

38. “Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.”

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39. “Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?”

— Christian N. Bovee

40. “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.”

— Christian N. Bovee

41. “To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.”

— Christian N. Bovee

42. “Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.”

— Christian N. Bovee

43. “Love’s sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.”

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44. “Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.”

— Christian N. Bovee

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

— Christian N. Bovee

47. “The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.”

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48. “There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”

— Christian N. Bovee

49. “A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.”

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50. “The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.”

— Christian N. Bovee