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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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 in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.
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