Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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.
Citations
Bovee, Christian Nestell. Intuitions and Summaries of Thought. Vol. 1, Ticknor and Fields, 1862, p. 154.
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Christian Nestell Bovee was an epigrammatic New York City writer.