Frases de Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee era escritor estadounidense.

✵ 22. febrero 1820 – 18. enero 1904
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Frases en inglés

“The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.”

Fuente: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 105.

“Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.”

"Sincerity", p. 153.
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II

“At all events, the next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.”

Fuente: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 124.

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

Fuente: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 143; quoted in Criminal Minds, "The Crossing" [episode 3.18].

“The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp.”

Fuente: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 16.

“He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 244.

“It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.”

Quoting Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), p. 132.
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