Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes about Evil

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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Evil, Way, Poverty

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Evil, Abuse, Satire

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Knowing, Evil, Desire

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Evil, Doe, Belief