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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations.
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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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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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