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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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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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 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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Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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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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