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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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Few minds wear out more rust out.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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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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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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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 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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
Christian Nestell Bovee
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
Christian Nestell Bovee
