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. Christian Nestell Bovee More Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee More Quotes From Christian Nestell Bovee What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. Christian Nestell Bovee instance law fear Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. Christian Nestell Bovee smile may character Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. Christian Nestell Bovee desperate cowardice courage Activity and sadness are incompatible. Christian Nestell Bovee activity sadness positive 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. Christian Nestell Bovee ego self names A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Christian Nestell Bovee strong determination motivational Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury. Christian Nestell Bovee luxury slavery None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. Christian Nestell Bovee eye heart love Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause. Christian Nestell Bovee logic causes weapons Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. Christian Nestell Bovee relief life reality Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. Christian Nestell Bovee rich noble life Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. Christian Nestell Bovee wall race feelings Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone. Christian Nestell Bovee leadership play fall The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable. Christian Nestell Bovee disease laziness may The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. Christian Nestell Bovee expression character men An illusion dissipated is an experience gained. Christian Nestell Bovee illusion By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher. Christian Nestell Bovee humor water firsts Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero. Christian Nestell Bovee persistence hero heart Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare. Christian Nestell Bovee elements development hero We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor. Christian Nestell Bovee gratitude favors
