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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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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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The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
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Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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