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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
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Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
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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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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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