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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.
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
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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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 give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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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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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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