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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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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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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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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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