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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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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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 past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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