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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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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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