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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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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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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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.
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To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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