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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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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In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.
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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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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.
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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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