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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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The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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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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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
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