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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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C. N. Bovee
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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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