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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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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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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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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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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
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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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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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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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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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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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