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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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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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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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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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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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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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The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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