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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
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New York City
New York
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
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Few minds wear out more rust out.
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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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