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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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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C. N. Bovee
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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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
Christian Nestell Bovee
We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
Christian Nestell Bovee
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Christian Nestell Bovee
