It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character. Christian Nestell Bovee More Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee More Quotes From Christian Nestell Bovee Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. Christian Nestell Bovee losing-a-loved-onecrygrief It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. Christian Nestell Bovee alaskaunseenliterature 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. Christian Nestell Bovee eyesoulbook Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. Christian Nestell Bovee few-wordsdignitytombstone 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 Nestell Bovee ropedegradationhumanity Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. Christian Nestell Bovee followersexamplecharacter There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. Christian Nestell Bovee customstyrantsfreedom Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable. Christian Nestell Bovee progressmatterideas The great obstacle to progress is prejudice Christian Nestell Bovee obstaclesprogressprejudice Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses. Christian Nestell Bovee populationexistenceworld Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. Christian Nestell Bovee geniuswritinghands We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. Christian Nestell Bovee beautifulbeautygiving An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching. Christian Nestell Bovee richesdevotionheart It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion. Christian Nestell Bovee writingmenbelieve Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction. Christian Nestell Bovee distinctionbeautylaughing Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Christian Nestell Bovee eventsgivingcharacter To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. Christian Nestell Bovee appreciationbeautifulprofound The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.] Christian Nestell Bovee gratitudebeautiful It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them. Christian Nestell Bovee charmbeautyart There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them. Christian Nestell Bovee reflectioncharactermen
