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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.
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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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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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