John Frederick Boyes Citas

• There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!

  John Frederick Boyes

  Men, Medicine, Mind

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3

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• Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Character, Giving, Punctuality

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.4

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• Debemos recordar que es tanto una parte de la amistad para ser delicado en sus demandas como para ser amplio en sus actuaciones.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Friendship, Demand, Remember

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3

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• It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Acting, Vain

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.1

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• Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Medicine, Enemy, Poison

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• It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Art, Judging, Honor

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• Los pensamientos sombríos y las fantasías a menudo requieren un poco de suelo real o sustancia para florecer; son los oscuros pinos que echan raíces y fruncen el ceño sobre las grietas del corazón herido y petrificado, y se nutren principalmente de la lluvia de lágrimas inútiles y los vapores de la fantasía.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Real, Rain, Heart

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and books, or Records of thought and reading”, p.22

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• There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Dulce, Flor, Libro

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.154

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• Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Giving, Grace, Doubt

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.155

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• Donde encontramos ecos, generalmente encontramos vacío y oquedad; es lo contrario con los ecos del corazón.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Heart, Echoes, Emptiness

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.7

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• Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Appreciation, Eye, Views

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• La nobleza de nacimiento es como una cifra; no tiene poder en sí misma, como la riqueza o el talento; pero, dice con todo el poder de una cifra cuando se añade a cualquiera de los otros dos.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Two, Ciphers, Ancestry

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58

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• It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Teaching, Two, Giving

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.7

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