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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.
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Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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 take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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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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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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