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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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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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 give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
Christian Nestell Bovee
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
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