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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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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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The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
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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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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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Example has far more followers than reason.
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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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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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