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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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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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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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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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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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