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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
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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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
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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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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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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 no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
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Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
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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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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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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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