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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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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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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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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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