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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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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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Our first and last love is self-love.
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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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
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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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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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