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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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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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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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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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.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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.
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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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.
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